A weak version of Rota's basis conjecture for odd dimensions
Combinatorics
2014-07-29 v5
Abstract
The Alon-Tarsi Latin square conjecture is extended to odd dimensions by stating it for reduced Latin squares (Latin squares having the identity permutation as their first row and first column). A modified version of Onn's colorful determinantal identity is used to show how the validity of this conjecture implies a weak version of Rota's basis conjecture for odd dimensions, namely that a set of bases in has disjoint independent transversals.
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@article{arxiv.1110.1830,
title = {A weak version of Rota's basis conjecture for odd dimensions},
author = {Ron Aharoni and Daniel Kotlar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1830},
year = {2014}
}